Ubuntu Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ubuntu Linux
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ubuntu skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 79 101
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 0.45% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.26% 2.78% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £425 £414 £404
25th Percentile £453 £415 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £430 £535
Median % change year-on-year +46.05% -19.63% +25.88%
75th Percentile £681 £445 £570
90th Percentile - £459 -
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.77% -

All Operating Systems
East of England

Ubuntu falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 265 180 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.10% 16.36% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 69 172
10th Percentile £163 £209 £163
25th Percentile £205 £225 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £488 £445 £569
90th Percentile £568 £550 £711
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 17 45
10th Percentile £14.00 £40.81 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.00 £53.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.04 £65.00 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -64.56% +359.04% -35.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.75 £73.20
England median hourly rate £24.00 £54.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -55.56% +89.47% +11.68%

Ubuntu
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ubuntu relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Ubuntu job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ubuntu in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ubuntu in the East of England

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ubuntu

Ubuntu
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -9 5 £681 +47.24% 1
Cambridgeshire -6 1 £575 +33.72% 4
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Acoustics
1 3 (50.00%) Derivative
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Debian
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (50.00%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) QEMU
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware